- a variation of slantwise.
slantways
Example Sentences
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He looked slantways out of the corners of his eyes.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
It blew in slantways under the top, then described a curve upward, and downward again, as if it were going to settle on the right end of the back.
From Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove
What makes her go slantways against the wind?
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
The great forces of the French king, coming down slantways from the north and east, had had nearly four miles to march to his three.
From Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
